Hospice News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Advance care planning lags in younger patients Younger terminally ill cancer patient populations often do not document their goals of care until the final month of life, a Medscape study found. More than half (57.7%) of the youth cancer patients had documented goals of care conversations within the last 30 days of life, while only 7.2%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To improve compliance, physicians can be active participants in interdisciplinary team meetings and provide guidance to ensure that clinical documentation is complete, accurate and supports the patients plan of care and personal goals, according to Templeton. You can imagine how this improves the level and consistency of our documentation.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

court documents stated. Without the injunction granted, patients stand to lose both trust and care continuity, Shaarawy’s attorneys indicated in the court documents. Shaarawy provides internal and family medicine, palliative care and hospice services and operates a private practice in Canoga Park, California.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Croix Hospice voice-to-text technology to reduce clinical documentation time and administrative burdens. We have found this technology results in a double win of reducing clinician documentation time while also improving the quality of the documentation, Arnold said. Additionally, St.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The document is part of a series of guides oriented around specific health conditions. Without family caregivers, many patients would not be able to receive hospice, palliative or other forms of home-based care. Cancer is among the more prevalent serious illnesses in the United States.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Here’s an area that you missed from a documentation perspective where you could get dinged by CMS for not documenting it, either this element or this way.” It’s an administrative burden.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. It’s important to understand that just because you have a transgender patient does not mean that being transgender is the main thing you focus on,” Fried said. Furthermore, 85.3% Furthermore, 85.3%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s not required,” Jillian Sparks, attorney at the OIG’s Industry Guidance Branch, said during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Several factors are crucial to working within Medicare Advantage, including complete and accurate clinical documentation, as well as strong performance on quality metrics. For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Palliative care providers face a host of legal and regulatory challenges when seeking to expand patients’ access to certain controlled substances. Providing therapeutic- and medically-guided patient experiences involves a deep understanding of compliance with evolving laws and safe utilization.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

An intensive care unit (ICU) stay often challenges everyone involved. Integrating palliative care could alleviate some of the suffering through symptom management, improved communication about goals and treatment, and better training and resources for staff. Nearly 75% of patients admitted to the ICU experience distressing symptoms.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

Providers have increasingly sought methods for streamlining clinical teams administrative tasks, for instance, including time spent on documentation. Systems like AI can help hospices allocate the appropriate resources for patients changing needs as well as reduce redundancies in tasks like clinical documentation.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These patients were also more likely to complete advance directive documentation, with about 50% of the telehealth palliative participants doing so compared to 19% of others. Patient data was analyzed from January 2021 to September 2023. Advance directive completion was higher under the intervention.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. However, unlike hospice services, which have a distinct payment model supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), palliative care has less established infrastructure for delivery.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. However, when evaluated through randomized clinical trials, the results tend to lean toward mediocre. I think the measures we have, it’s not so much that they’re wrong, but they certainly are imprecise,” Dr. Kathleen M.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Students are also trained on understanding how AI technology can reduce time spent on patient documentation and help catch errors. As the need for palliation grows, outcomes and experiences vastly vary – with payment often at the crux of inconsistencies in quality and care delivery approaches.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This follows a nearly $115 million shortfall the prior year, tax documents show. The hospice, palliative care and personal care provider Gentiva has acquired the hospice, home health and palliative assets of the nonprofit health system ProMedica. Heartland Hospice is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, with locations in 26 states.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Much of the data that exists around care preferences is gathered in medical settings where Native Hawaiian elders are less likely to complete formalized documentation compared to others, the researchers indicated. Only one-quarter of patients with advanced cancer received palliative care during the last six months of life, the study found.

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JULY 15, 2022

It’s an ongoing process of making sure that everyone’s educated about this, that we’re thinking about the discharge planning process from the start and making sure that our teams are really documenting appropriately and understanding who actually qualifies for GIP. Could you add some details about that?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

How’s it being documented? The health care performance improvement company Stratis Health has developed a framework for expanding access to palliative care in rural communities. It leverages those resources to offer a wraparound suite of services for seniors and seriously ill patients. There’s a variety. Who is aware of it?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Without billing codes, providers have no way to measure telehealth services, meaning that many of these visits are not documented in any official record, the industry groups argued in the letter. The organizations called on Congress to require the US.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The study also includes examination of patients documented goals of care. Weve come a long way in hospice with dementia care, but there are still areas where we struggle with caregiver respite even at the end of life, Jennings told Hospice News. They often have long periods of caregiving.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2023

While documents on the model do not specifically mention palliative care, several elements of the model align with that care model, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care. They are required to do symptom assessments and then come up with plans to address symptoms and side effects. “The

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half (59.6%) of seriously ill Hispanic patients in the intervention group completed some form of advanced directive documentation, compared to 26.9% Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! among others. “In

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

For example, Sharon Richardson’s staff can now use their own devices to document patient information both offline and online. Data collection and analysis are becoming increasingly important to palliative care providers’ clinical and business processes. Recently, Sharon S. Palliative care is such a challenging business.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. What were your impressions of that document? It’s a beautiful document. In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

For Center to Advance Palliative Care’s CEO Brynn Bowman, palliative care represents a fundamental shift in health care delivery as it continues to grow and make an impact on facilities and patients. health care workforce with the skills necessary to care for seriously ill patients and their families. Are the care models consistent?

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Palliative care providers find themselves in a dilemma. Demand for the service they provide is growing, but that growth is hindered by a lack of industry-wide standards for palliative care. That regulatory scaffolding is needed because we can have that spectrum. The problem boils down to how palliative care shows its value, Baird said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference. I have done everything from bedside nursing to administration, and my last eight years at the agency level were spent as a quality assurance coordinator.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Thanks for sharing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping). Celine Dion. Transcript.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Providers should use a two-pronged approach that includes insight into clinical documentation and claims to capture both the costs and levels of palliative care received, she explained. The scope of palliative care is broadening across the nation, but a lack of sufficient payment mechanisms is curbing growth. NYSE: CHE) subsidiary.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

A clinician may not not have realized they were acting contrary to patients’ wishes due to insufficient training, documentation errors or process breakdowns. . They know the patient’s wishes were documented but chose to ignore them. In other instances, a health care provider acts deliberately.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. Maybe we should do a podcast on LiverPal? (or or should we call it HepatoPal?) Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Effective documentation The importance of complete and accurate documentation cannot be overstated. Errors and omissions in clinical documentation are the leading cause of audit and survey deficiencies, as well as claims denials when it comes to GIP. In addition to these routine MAC audits, the U.S.

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